Resistance to the slaveholder is the same in kind which Washington made against British aggression and servitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination, by Eld. John W. Lewis. Together with an Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race by the Same. Also, an Essay on the Fugitive Law of the U. S. Congress of 1850, by Rev. Arthur Dearing] Reference
For that reason he was called a slaveholder, and a fellow senator once openly accused him of shaping his course as a public man to accord with his private interests. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Arnold Douglas] Reference
Cincinnati Black Blog: Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view] Reference
A sympathy for "Southern institutions" because he believes that a slaveholder is a better man than himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
"slaveholder" and "slave," whenever it may be advantageous to your side of the question to have them thus translated. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
In 1849, a slaveholder brought his slave to California. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Thomas Jefferson is recast as a slaveholder and miscegenate. From Wordnik.com. [Are Texas's social studies standards really so bad?] Reference
He was not a slaveholder in the southern sense of that word. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
None other will be accepted, for a moment, by the slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Did fire from heaven descend, and consume the slaveholder at their invocation?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
I remember, also, that the more learned the slaveholder, the greater the rebel. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
We have just seen "his real judgment" respecting the character of one slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Most assuredly there was no place in the eyes of the law for an inhuman slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
These resolutions were introduced and sponsored by Charles Fenton Mercer, a slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Then they uncover a slaveholder five generations back and get the willies and walk off the job. From Wordnik.com. [In The Mom And Dad Museum] Reference
Mr. Blair, a slaveholder of Missouri, was one, from a large book by Helper, a North Carolinian. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Now that provision was made for the freedmen the slaveholder felt at liberty to manumit his slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
The new principal was uncongenial, a severe young man from the South whose father was a slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Here, then, is the difference: with us the slaveholder controls the question of emancipation, while in. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
And I am not slow to recognize the fact that we received much more from slavery than did the slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Henry Clay of Kentucky, a slaveholder but opposed to the extension of slavery, was then a member of the House. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
I have been a slaveholder all my life until the day when the ordinance of emancipation was passed in my State. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
In the settlement of an estate the slaveholder was no longer a factor, for his demise alone had brought the sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Not so with its present occupants, who could not learn that the minister, who was a large slaveholder, had remembered. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
A Mississippi slaveholder brought several slaves from that State and promised to give them their freedom in two years. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The last point that needs attention, is the charge that the author is a slaveholder, and governed by mercenary motives. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
What was the attitude of the Kentucky slaveholder and the people in general on the question of the domestic slave trade?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Burnett had been brought up in the South and although he had ceased to be a slaveholder, he could not think of living with. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The non-slaveholders would have left the country, and the small slaveholder must have sold out to his more fortunate neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They believed that the existence of a settlement in Africa would deter the slaveholder from securing his cargo in human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Kentucky slavery question but it undoubtedly typified the real position of the average high-minded Kentucky slaveholder of that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The reason can now be clearly comprehended, why abolitionists have had so little moral power over the conscience of the slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Why should we withhold from the just cause of Ireland and Newfoundland the sympathy which England gave to the secessionist slaveholder?. From Wordnik.com. [Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor] Reference
But there were none who dreamed that the slaveholder would be the Samson to bring down the atrocious system of human slavery by madly taking arms in its defence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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